English Word-based analysis

Home Keys Analysis

The Home Keys for this layout are shown with red dots in the image above, giving the following letters:

adfjkls

Home key bigrams, trigrams, quadgrams and common words

Scores are based on which fingers are used for the top 20 bigrams, trigrams and quadgrams, and top 30 common words, with the scores
weighted by strength of finger used, and frequency of occurance of the text.

Metric

Rank

Weighted score

Components handled and not handled

Bigrams

351

0 / 90.17

th he in er an re nd on en at ou ed ha to or it is hi es ng

Trigrams

344

0.7 / 39.68

all the and ing her hat his tha ere for ent ion ter was you ith ver wit thi tio

Quadgrams

293

0 / 15.88

that ther with tion here ould ight have hich whic this thin they atio ever from ough were hing ment

Common words

351

3.5 / 84.45

a as the of and to in is for that was on with he it at his by be from are this I but have an has not they or

Home Key letters

English words typeable

Longest word

Example

asdfjkl

99

8

alfalfas

Word count

Word length

Easyblock Analysis

The typical Easyblock Keys for this layout form factor are shown here:

Easyblock letters

English words typeable

Longest word

Example

wWeEioOsSdDfFjklcm

2694

14

mesdemoiselles

Word count

Word length

Homeblock Analysis

The typical Homeblock Keys for this layout form factor are shown here:

Homeblock letters

English words typeable

Longest word

Example

wWeErRuUiIoOsSdDfFjJkKlLzZxXcCmM

10141

14

Mesdemoiselles

Word count

Word length

Angle Mod Homeblock Analysis

The typical Angle Mod Homeblock Keys for this layout form factor are shown here:

Angle mod Homeblock letters

English words typeable

Longest word

Example

wWeErRuUiIoOsSdDfFjJkKlLzZxXmM

6962

14

Mesdemoiselles

Word count

Word length

One-handed words Analysis

This looks at how many words can be typed with only left or right hand. We want these numbers to be low.
This metric was done "strictly" ... shifted or AltGr letters were only included if Shift or AltGr was on the same hand.
Note: we exclude the Dvorak one-handed layouts comparison, since clearly by design they can type every possible word with one hand.

Left hand letters

Left words

Longest left word

Left example

Right hand letters

Right words

Longest right word

Right example

Total

qQwWeErRtTaAsSdDfFgGzZxXcCvVbB

5137

14

sweaterdresses

yYuUiIoOpPhHjJkKlLnNmM

761

12

miminypiminy

5898

Left hand

Right hand

Word count

Word length

Word length

SameFinger Bigrams

This is a weighted analysis of same-finger usage.

The probability that a letter will follow another given letter
is used to evaluate layouts by which letters pairs are on the same fingers. We multiply this figure by the percentage frequency of the first letter, in English.
We add the probabilities in both directions, for example "er" and "re".

There are some exceptions: We only look at lower case, and if the second letter is on the same key as the first, we ignore that pair.

The idea is to see how much a finger has to fly around, and if the two letters are on the same key (as in the split-case layouts) then it doesn't
have to fly between them.

The metric does not measure how far the finger has to fly, just that it has to. I'll look at adding distance, row jumps, inward rolls, outward rolls, to this metric if possible.

Finger

Letters

Score

Left pinky

'qwasz'

161.5811

Left ring

'edx'

158.3801

Left middle

'rfc'

39.206

Left index

'tgvb'

3.2726

Left thumb

'⍽'

0

Right thumb

''

0

Right index

'yuhjnm'

97.1051

Right middle

'ik'

16.5313

Right ring

'ol'

57.709

Right pinky

'p'

0

Both thumbs

''

0

Total

533.79

Word metric comparisons

Metric

Lowest

Lowest score

typematrix.en.ansi score

Highest

Highest score

Home keys

abcdef.en.ansi

3

99

essie-2.en.matrix

174012

Easyblock

qwerty-rehomed.en.ansi

100

2694

essie-3-wip.en.ergolinear

189738

Homeblock

qwerty-typewriter.en.ansi

1562

10141

essie-3-wip.en.ergolinear

273265

Angle mod Homeblock

alphametric.en.ansi

1354

6962

essie-3-wip.en.ergolinear

273265

Left hand words

qgmlwy.en.ergolinear

34

5137

tnwmlc.en.ansi

22157

Right hand words

essie-3.en.ergolinear

26

761

reverse-qwerty.en.ansi

14771

Total single handed

essie-3.en.ergolinear

158

5898

tnwmlc.en.ansi

22301

Average single handed

essie-3.en.ergolinear

79

2949

tnwmlc.en.ansi

11150.5

Same finger bigrams

seelpy-1.en.ergolinear

8.01

533.79

mcgunnigle-peoples.en.ansi

1757.11

Fraser Street analysis

"Fraser Street" (thanks Shai) is a specially-crafted text in which most of the words are typed with only the left hand, on the QWERTY layout.
It was designed to highlight how much better the Dvorak layout is at hand alternation.
We ignore spaces and punctuation.